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Monday, February 13, 2012

Dracorex are saying: "this year, come in Italy to see the best dino-exhibit of the world!"

Herein Italywe have greatexpectationsfor the 2012. It will be another amazing yearforpaleontology and paleoart!After the stages in cities of Piacenza, Courmayeur and Pavia, the wonderful exhibit of "Dinosauri in Carne e Ossa" (Dinosaurs in the Flesh) will move in the city of Florence (Firenze), from the 1st day of March until September 2. For this new stage, the largest fleshed-out restorations will be seen in one of the world’s oldest and suggestive botanical gardens, the Garden Semplici of the Florence Natural History Museum!

A year has passed from the first openingof the exhibit, inPiacenza, and now our paleoartistsand the Geomodel team prepared a lot of new attractions and services for the fans.First of all, new life-size sculptures of prehistoric animals (not only dinosaurs). Parasaurolophus, Stygimoloch, Triceratops and many other beasts will join into the pack!

Stygimoloch spinifer (preview)

Visitors can view the progress of the 3D Paleoaquarium, 110 educational illustrated panels, 120 illustrations of internationally renowned paleoartists, and some surprises!

For the kids, some week ago was inaugurated "Dinosauri in Carne e Ossa Junior", a nice initiative finalizedtopromote in the web the artofyoungdinosaur enthusiasts of today... and yesterday. Someone have recognizedthe artist whomade ​​the drawing above? Is a work by Davide Bonadonna, when he was 7 years old! :)

Sunday, February 12, 2012

The gallery has been up a while now, but we've got no comments on it. This combined with a major site formatting issue I encounter with the post (I lose the whole right sidebar) and the fact my blog feed hasn't shown the gallery as posted leads me to suspect there is a malfunction.

In good news I think this problem is caused by the absolute sheer volume of awesomeness that is the gallery (though I suspect the number of picture files rather than awesomeness is causing the problem). If you could leave us a comment here or on the gallery post if you are having similar issues so we can approach blogger about solutions.

So check out the gallery either here, or by refreshing the blog. It exists, I'm just not sure people can see it on feeds and the like. Please also help spread the word if you could...

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Amazing fossil evidence show irrefutably that several dinosaurs had feathers. In an effort to promote the current view to the public, ART Evolved is proud to showcase art by incredible artists. Banish the recreations of naked JP velociraptors, and embrace the soft downy feathers! Science in action!

I don’t hate the idea that some dinosaursmay have had feathers, (as a matter of fact I find that some dinosaurs actuallylook cooler with them) but after watching the goofy fluffysaurus (Gorgosaurusand Albertosaurus) on that documentary “March of the Dinosaurs,” Iknew they took this “Dinosaur evolved to birds” thing has gone to far!

A test of my new 3D lighting techniques. I had planned on illustrating the "recent" paper

by Chris Carbone, Samuel T. Turvey and Jon Bielby talking about how Tyrannosaurids probably HAD to hunt some of the time due to the far larger population of smaller theropods finding and eating carrion before the Tyrannosaurids could get there first. Sadly the time constraints of creating the new lighting, and memory consumption of 3D feathers caused me to create a more traditional scene.

Talossampsoni; a newly described Campanian troodontid from the USA. The holotypespecimen (UMNH VP 19479) consists of little more than the hindlimbs, ulna andsome vertebre, so this reconstruction is mostly modeled on Saurornithoides andTroodon formosus. Plumage reconstructed after Jinfengopteryx elegans(CAGS-IG-04-0801) and the Rhea, an extant flightless paravian of similar weightand size to T. sampsoni.

Life reconstructionof a feathered dromaeosaurid from the Yixian Formation of Early CretaceousChina. This specimen has been described in great detail, but is still notassigned to any particular species. The feathers on "Dave" andhis friend are not speculative; the exceptionally well preserved fossilmaterial clearly shows a dinosaur covered in various types of feathers. Iused photos of casts of NGMC 91 as reference, as well as the following paper:

Digitalillustration representing a hypothetical scene from the Jehol group of earlyCretaceous Liaoning of China, something like 122 million years ago. Severalanimals from the Yixian formation are represented here: A microraptoriddromaeosaur, Sinornithosaurus millenni, a feathereddromaeosaurid dinosaur; Liaoxitriton zhongjiani, asalamander; Alloraphidia, a snakefly; Epicharmeropsis, a mayfly, and a dead Callobatrachus,a frog.

My interpretation ofthe dinosaur Rahonavis ostromi (Maevarano Formation, Maastricthtian,Madagascar). A small (crow-sized) unenlagiine raptor which might've been aflying genus. Here, I have presented sexual dimorphism in these two, thecrested one being a male, the crestless one being a female.

It's possible that at least some of these four-winged dinosaurs werefeathered right to the tip of the nose, since they apparently did nothave a proper keratinous beak. I have never seen anyone depict themlike that, however, so I gave it a try. It looks somewhat like a yeti.

Just to show howperilous life could be in the desert with dangers other than VelociraptorXD.....this is Citipati osmolskae, very often mistaken for Oviraptor. A veryold picture, from around middle of last year, drawn in eleventh grade. So Ihaven't got everything good and nice....under exam stress......sorry.... (BarunGoyot Formation, Campanian, Mongolia)

Yet another Tyrannosaur chronicles OC. I wentwith a yin yang theme. Note that I like to use some sort of Dragon motif when Ido something with dinosaurs. Dragons will come up in future cartoons, assumingthat SOPA and PIPA don’t get passed. I think these would be cool to see in a TCadventure. (mind spelling errors)

Just my equivalent of a doodle, but my planned future direction for Traumador. Don't expect the blog to restart (sadly) anytime soon though. I'm thinking more a reboot of his "universe" in some sort of book form. So do watch for more developments and tweaks on his new look.

Hears a picture of an Anchiornis.If you see this picture then I must be more lovedaround the paleo art community then I thought! This is a drawing I made becauseI wanted to see if you guys would post such a Interesting piece of artwork. Plus it give me something for my local art show! Oh, and in case youdon’t want to go looking for the verse yourself and “risk yourscientific credibility” it says “For I am not ashamed of the gospel,because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes:first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.”

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